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  Thanks for this post, Craig. For those that want a clearer, concise description of FITs, my colleague John Farrell has prepared, Why we need a feed-in tariff (in 10 slides) and the April 2009 report, Feed-in Tariffs in America: Driving the Economy with Renewable Energy Policy that WorksOn Feed-in rates: a hard sell posted 1 month, 1 week ago 3 Responses

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  Nice article Stacy! 

  On Neighborhood stores: An overlooked strategy for fighting global warming posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 7 Responses

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  Energy Self Reliant States

  To some of the comments here that argue that there isn't enough renewable energy in each state to satisfy in-state needs, I'd ask you to take a look at a little report we did recently...

  Energy Self-Reliant States: Homegrown Renewable Power
  How much energy could be generated by states tapping into internal renewable resources? This November 2008 report presents preliminary data that suggests that at least half of the fifty states could meet all their internal energy needs from renewable energy generated inside their borders, and the vast majority could meet a significant percentage.
  

  Full Report - Executive Summary

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  On Against the so-called 'need' for new long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines posted 9 months, 1 week ago 11 Responses

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  MN Carbon tax shift background

  FYI, we did a lot of work on a proposed $1.5 billion tax shift in Minnesota back in the mid 1990s.  Visit the archive of materials

  Also our work on Carbon Cap and Dividends

  cheers.
  jb
  

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  On The only obstacle to more state carbon taxes is politics posted 1 year, 6 months ago 1 Response

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  GHG and Ethanol

  Hi folks-
  First, thanks to those folks offering kind words about the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) and our work over the last 33 years. To be clear, our longtime work on related to biofuels have primarily been focused on issues related to scale and local ownership. To that end, we have periodically responded to or prepared our own research that hopefully helps to direct public policy to support that focus.

  The studies in Science and our response focused narrowly on the GHG issue related to land use for biofuels. Our purpose was pointing out the limitations and fuzzy assumptions of these Science studies.  Assuming you've read our paper...you'll quickly see that it does not offer a comprehensive look at our positions on transportation, global warming and biofuels policy. For that you have to work a little harder and go beyond a simple press release. I'd urge folks to look around more completely at ILSR's work via our New Rules Project web site (much of our ethanol work can be found at this link)

  To extrapolate from this single policy brief that we are ignoring myriad issues is to ignore the breadth of our positions, which is much more comprehensive and nuanced. It includes shifting some of our transportation investments from driving to other modes, enabling energy consumers to become energy producers, building more traditional neighborhoods and business districts that reduce the distances people need to travel, plug-in vehicles, and more.

  We do see biofuels as a key part of the solution to the transportation, climate and energy problems, at least in the short-term, and we've strongly advocated for biofuels policies that minimize pollution and maximize community benefit. That means smaller scale and local ownership along with better farming practices and advanced and cleaner production techniques. I'll also note that coming soon from ILSR is a report titled, Driving our Way to Energy Independence.

  Thanks.

  John Bailey
  ILSR
  

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  On ILSR, spinning like a top posted 1 year, 8 months ago 7 Responses